NCED Director Chris Paola was a guest on a recent MPR's Midmorning show, where he spoke on "inverse mountains" and the geology of New Orleans. Click here to listen to the broadcast.

With the move of PI David Mohrig to the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas at Austin, NCED is pleased to include UT Austin on our list of Partner Institutions.

an evening at the big back yard
At a recent celebration at the Big Back Yard, NCED Graduate Museum Assistant Emily Horth and the SMM Park Crew guided NCED visitors and guests through the interpretive activities they devised this summer to expand the engagement of Museum visitors in NCED science. Attendees enjoyed a round of golf and the fruits of a successful collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota. (See photo below.)